AN AMERICAN RAILWAY HORROR.
» Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 17. The westbound California express, during a blizzard, collided with a local train at Pneblo, in the State of Colorado. Forty persona were killed, fifteen of them being incinerated Marry more were injured. There were numerous thrilling rescues. One man, wedged in a window, writhing in the flames, asked to bo shot. Tho roof, however, fell on his head, killing him. One of tho rescued saw hia family of ton burnt. Another escaped from the wreckage, except that his foot was pinioned. Seeing the flames approaching, he called for a hatchet ,and desperately tried to sever his foot by chopping it off, but the flames overwhelmed him.
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Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 7
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117AN AMERICAN RAILWAY HORROR. Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 7
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